The spike
in online streaming video users for Netflix appears to have
originated from customers in Canada. The company's traditional
DVD-by-mail service was
not offered as an option to consumers there, they were only
provided with the choice of streaming video.

In
the week following the launch of service to Canadians, 10 percent of
Netflix online usage came from that country and video streaming usage
numbers will continue to increase in Canada and are expected to rise
exponentially in North America overall, according to Sandvine.

In
response to the study, one online report
suggests that another reason that Netflix may be gaining
momentum could stem from the fact that while online users spend only
moments at a time on YouTube, they tend to spend hours
at a time on Netflix.

"That video is growing rapidly and going
to be huge is true," said Akamai's Tom Leighton. "But
there's tons of capacity out at the edges of the network....plenty of
capacity in the last mile to your house."

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Sounds great in theory, but then there will be very few insurance company options in the future. Health insurance companies cannot survive on 20% and stay profitable and continue to offer new products. NO COMPANY can survive on that! One Health Insurance company I worked for 15 years ago was very profitable, but has laid off 800 employees this year because of the Health Bill. Did not make sense to stay in business. So, they will be laying off the rest in 2011. This is a very BAD bill!!

The 20% figure is not profit alone, it is for both overhead and profit. That is why the insurance experts are saying it probably can't be done and all of the smaller companies are considering closing down. But I'm sure that still seems like a good idea to you. Moron.

Southwest Airlines which is considered the most profitable airlines in US has a revenue of 11 billion with net income of only 178 million. that's 1.6% profit. they obviously survived. look at other industry profit margin before you complained.

The linked independent study says insurance companies run with a 3.3% profit margin. Lower than Medicare. Who runs Medicare?

quote: The report also found that private plans perform those administrative functions that Medicare performs at a lower cost. Private plans are able to perform administrative functions for $12.51 per member per month compared to $13.19 per month for Medicare.

So you're telling me that health insurance companies can't survive on 20%? That would mean that health insurance increases the cost of health care by at least 25%. The numbers I found are that, on average, 12% of revenue goes to administrative overhead among private insurers, and that includes state taxes on insurers (though I also found that numbers were at or slightly over 20% for some insurers). 12% isn't great, but considering the volume of claims they process, it's somewhat reasonable.